Sentence examples for impoverished at from inspiring English sources

The country you left was at best impoverished; at worst, war-torn and dangerous.

Who doesn't want to help out the impoverished at this time of year, especially when they could potentially have lucrative modelling careers ahead of them?

His painstaking attention to detail (hence his small output) suffered, and three years later he died impoverished at the age of 43.

The frugal life of, say, an ascetic monk may not be impoverished at all, if it is short in cash, but rich in purpose, community and understanding.

Though the Baroness had a flamboyant heart, she spent the last years of her life alone and impoverished, at least partly because she was incapable of compromises.

From the point of view of society this distinction between what happens to those who were impoverished at some point in time and those who are at the bottom of the income pyramid at different points in time may not be important.

A downbeat fifth episode followed in 1990, in which brain trauma was diagnosed in the newly impoverished, down-at-heel Rocky.

The sudden surge in violence does not yet appear to have brought the stricken, impoverished country at the heel of the Arabian peninsula much closer to ending eight months of tense political stalemate.

But the sudden upsurge in violence has not brought the stricken, impoverished country at the heel of the Arabian peninsula any closer to ending eight months of tense political stalemate.

Three families from cramped, impoverished settlements at the foot of Jaraguá peak have already taken up residence in the new village, named Tekoa Itakupé, which is flanked on one side by forest and on the other by the community's crops.

Brothers in Shakespeare are often contrasted, nice and nasty – Don Pedro and Don John in Much Ado, Edgar and Edmund in Lear, Orlando and Oliver in As You Like It – this pattern partly a reflection of the Elizabethan laws of primogeniture that resulted in the eldest brother taking the entire patrimony, leaving younger male siblings impoverished and at a loose end.